Spreading false information isn't trolling, it's slander and/or libel. And if someone is committing a crime that hurts another person, they should rightly and justly be punished by law, not some phpBB plugin.

I feel the same way about commercials and TV theme songs.

More people have "fragile emotional states" these days because they've spent their lives being coddled and/or taught to respond to adversity by becoming a victim. When I was growing up bullies didn't say things on a website, they found you, beat your ass, then bragged about it to the whole school. Fortunately for me, my parents taught me that I was worth more than being some douches punching bag, and the important lesson that the only person who could control how I reacted to other people was me - besides, society isn't going to change because I'm having a hard time. Was it bad? Worse than most of the "whine about it on YouTube" generation could possibly imagine. Did I consider killing myself to end it all? Actually tried and failed a couple times to be honest.

But somehow I survived. Maybe its because I'm made of better stuff than other people, but that sounds. I ike self-aggrandizing bullshit to me. Rather, I believe it's because I realized that I was only a victim of my own self-loathing, and upon that realization learned how to have the confidence to stand up for myself in the face of, for lack of a better term, typical human dickishness.

Trolls (in the traditional sense), are easy enough to avoid - refuse to engage them and they'll eventually get bored and go bother someone else.

Militaries? No.

Powerful despots who want armies who not only won't, but literally can't disobey orders? No matter how incomprehensibly immoral? Oh, very much yes.

Because letting the robots make that decision never works out well. Cmon, haven't you seen [insert almost any robot-based scifi here]?

Hmm, phone decided to post the response to the wrong comment...I blame Verizon. Maybe Google.

In other words, it's not so much a "troll detector," but rather a groupthink protection mechanism.

Better patent that bad boy, gonna be in high demand...

... not once realizing the irony of their actions.

Personally I'm curious how it would function on a site like foxnews or huffpo - in the case of the latter, would it flag the one person posting pro-2nd Amendment comments, or would it flag everyone else when they pile one the aforementioned poster with mountains of venomous hatred?

How about an algorithm for developing thicker skin?

Internet trolls only have the power you give them; many sites have an "ignore this douchebag" button anyway, so it's really a moot point.

Disqus, and the comment section at The Atlantic.

And then the one pilot pulls the breaker on the monitoring/remote control system. So the breakers are made non-pullable. And then, oops, an electrical short brings down the aircraft, because the pilot couldn't pull the breaker...

That's where I both am, and am not, driving to work, right?

for IBM to lay off another couple hundred thousand.

Yea, that's called an occupational hazard, not an excuse to not do your fucking job. Jesus, if underwater welders and fishermen (wo have far, far more life-threatening jobs than any LEO) were as whiny and pussified as cops, we'd have no oil or food.

Of course, if the detectives use their brains they can decrease their personal risk while still doing what they're paid to do. Of course that implies hiring people who actually have functioning brains... something many departments apparently have a policy against.